Justice is served: SCO ordered to pay Novell millions

It's true that we haven't been forced to put up with SCO for a year or two, but I will admit to still feeling annoyed by the festering cesspool of greed that leaked from SCO's boardroom into the software industry for several years. These guys deserve to pay.

And so they will. Unfortunately, not very much. $2.55 million.

Still, the irony is sweet, as Groklaw suggests:

So, SCO breached its fiduciary duty to Novell, converted funds, and so it has to pay. That is ironic, in that this case started with SCO accusing Novell of slander of title, and asking for millions in damages. Instead it has to *pay* Novell millions.

Sometimes the good guys win. I just wish Novell could pierce the corporate veil and take more money out of Darl and his henchmen. That would be true justice. But I'll settle for what little the US courts can render under the circumstances.

[Sumatra-Bosch]

Better, go after MSFT for instigating the bogus action.

[The_Decider]

True justice would be Darl doing 5-10 in a federal pen.

He knew he didn't have a case before he started this farce.

If anything, people who actually held SCO stock should be taking every dime he has.

[The_Decider]

Does SCO even have $2.55 million? Last I heard revenues are less then the cost of running this scam.

[FellowConspirator]

SCO's market cap at the close of trading was 3.28M, but in just this week it has been as low as 2.4M. It's a very volatile penny stock. For what it's worth, looking at their last quarterly report shows that they've been losing about 2.5M per quarter for the past few quarters. If they pay Novell, they won't have any cash, if they don't pay, they've got about 3 months of operating funds... Do you suppose their lawyers will work pro-bono? Perhaps they can work a deal to get Jonathan Lee Riches to represent them via conference call.

[Draq Wraith]

Now that this is done any bets on stock holders lawsuits against the board members ensuring that not one of them sits on aboard again?
I can hardly wait for the lawyer to sue for his money too. Novels lawyer will most certainly be awarded fees from this too.
Then there is MSFT who didn't instigate this incident but they tried to help fund it to the tune of 100 million dollars based on dayrls licensing lies.
Now how many of these companies are going to file fruad charges against SCO?
Lets just say SCO is the one that kicked over this hornets nest they will be the ones who pay, pay, and pay again!!
Bankruptcy is the next step.
D~W

[Sumatra-Bosch]

Right, Novell should go after MSFT. Do we really know to any degree of certainty that MSFT didn't instigate the action?

[Get_Bent]

Queue up Nelson from "The Simpsons": Ha-ha!